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This article proposes several alternatives to feature driven roadmaps.

But it ignores the main reason that roadmaps exist: as communication documents to the rest of the organization. This is what I used roadmaps for as a PM for a decade, but it was driven home after talking to hundreds of PMs after founding my fourth company[1] and coaching PMs and product/dev teams to level up for another decade[2].

The real roadmap trap in my experience is that the org takes a roadmap as a promise of when specific things will be delivered. The best approach to avoid this is to not do roadmaps. But that’s also unrealistic for most orgs. The next best approach is to show the org short-term work that will definitely get done, and caveat the heck out of anything longer term. I’ll happily commit to 6-8 weeks out, tentatively commit to 10-20 weeks, and add large asterisks to anything longer than that.

1- https://www.savio.io

2- https://www.Reemer.com
I'm the same, for some reason I get extremely fatigued when I'm driving a "normal" car. Something about having to adjust the car just a little bit ALL THE TIME makes my brain not be able to relax.

With a the limited lane assist in my EV (basically it stays in lane and changes lanes if I turn on the signal), I can drive longer distances and stay alert without getting tired. All I need to do is apply slight torque to the steering wheel and mind the other vehicles on the road.
> and I learned a new word because of it 'cargo cult management'

You're welcome :). Perhaps you can help me back and explain to me, what's up with SPACs this month? I've been hanging around startup circles for years now, and I've never noticed SPACs until some HN threads yesterday or two days ago. And now I see them everywhere. Did Matt Levine write about them recently or something?
The UK has something like the 4th most Covid-19 vaccinations per capita of any country in the world, and the gap between it and other western countries is quite big from what I recall. (All the countries with more are much smaller, meaning that they could achieve that with a much smaller vaccination program and fewer doses than would be necessary to do the same in other countries.)
> also have several family members that I can only get in contact with through Facebook.

This is a key failure imho. You find a long lost cousin, classmate, friend. First thing I would do is say "hey, what's your number" or "let's jump on a skype call" (come on, almost everyone has skype). Basically establish an 'independent' communication channel.
As Facebook bought WhatsApp after a few years when WhatsApp got big enough what's to stop another huge corporation to buy Signal or Telegram when they become big enough? Because it will happen, it always happens.

Whats to stop the cycle?
I agree with your sentiments on driver assist. I'm not comfortable with the ambiguity of responsibility. But that's not really the key point, it's just how we feel. These features act as premium goodies, like old cruise control or whatever. People buy them, use them. They generate data. User-developer feedback loops. That's already a fact. The debate is about the importance of this .

The core debate (of this article: waymo_v_tesla), is about technology paths. Do you start with driver assist and move up the Ls gradually as units are produced, KMs are accumulated and dollars come in? Alternatively, do you get as close as possible with a prototype and then closer with the next one..? worry about financial/product viability once you have a working archetype.

This dovetails with the lidar question.

Ultimately, I find the disagreement fascinating. There's probably value in having these two throwing their weight into opposing camps. IDK which approach will win in self driving. Every technology is its own example.

That said, I like Elon's approach as a generality. To me, it's about thinking of technology and invention as an industrial/societal effort rather than a lab effort... even if reduced to a lab at a company. Learning curves exist. Feedback loops exist. A technology with products and customer and usage progresses, often.

You could not have "produced" Moore's law the Waymo way, most likely.
> got the consumer interested in smartphones and view flip-phones as inferior

except cellular phones were vastly better devices for their purpose.

smartphones are better only for content networks (FB and similar) and App stores

Meanwhile my Nokia 7650 in 2002 was already doing everything I need today, but it also worked when it rains (most smartphones touch screens get confused by water) and battery lasted days, not hours. It also survived an infinite number of falls.

We see them as "old" only because mobile connectivity was in its infancy and HW has become much more powerful in a small time frame.

But I would trade my actual smartphone for a phone of that era with 4g connection, a physical keyboard and a modern screen immediately.
If you'd read the website you linked more carefully, you'd see the reason:

>Also excluded are aircraft models have no fatal events involving airline passengers:

>Airbus: A220, A319neo, A320neo, A321neo, A340, A350, A380

A300 and A310 are old planes, not in service in reasonable airlines.
> Very few people were willing to pay £600+ for a phone pre-iphone

Nokia N-series smartphones were in that price range and sold in their tens of millions.
>I ate jerk chicken with red beans and rice last week, I don’t think that was an Anglo-Saxon invention, nor was chitlins, collard greens or other dishes.

No, but those latter aren't carribean or african either. They are african-american, created in the US (and for specific historical circumstances, including food price concerns, and local food availability).

As for "jerk chicken" that's just an imported popular dish. Carribeans do eat it, but you aren't carribean for eating it any more than you're Mexican for eating mexican..
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Facebook agreed to not share WhatsApp data with other products as part of the agreement that gave them the EU regulator's permission to take over WhatsApp. If they shared data, it would have been a breach of that agreement.
It's multiple times in the article. Once would be a understandable typo.
This is a problem space that crystal-lang handles with beautiful elegance [1]. Include a single module, get sane behaviour out-of-the-box, and specify anything domain specific with a type annotations.

[1]: https://crystal-lang.org/api/0.35.1/JSON/Serializable.html
Your comments on this are so outlandish that I wonder if they're made in good faith?

I could suggest you're being paid to defend Ryanair online, but I can't imagine Ryanair paying someone to do that. They don't care about their reputation enough. Kind of like how they aren't too bothered about how it looks in the media when their planes catch fire or have to be intercepted by fighter jets.
> It may very well be that future FSD modes will require highly detailed maps, manual curation, limited areas where things can work

This is the way.

We need a common standard of machine-readable markers along roads to make long-distance FSD viable. We have the technology, what we need is to agree on a single standard and get it installed.

For cities it's a similar thing, but there are a bunch of additional variables (called humans) to take care of.
What do you mean "the government created" - some markets naturally have a tendency to create monopolies because they are winner takes all. Governments have to actively interfere with that process and break them up - just look at bit tech.
The deaths stopped because 'we' demanded that they stop flying. Who would make that choice in your model?
I get some trust from the fact that Telegram is the chosen platform for drug dealers and terrorists around the world. The metadata in Signal actually got people in trouble...

Whatever flaws Telegram got, it seems less impactful than getting mined by facebook and the practical design failings of Signal.
Maybe or maybe not. Given that they're basically picking a very similar recipe from the economical development playbook, I wouldn't be surprised if they arrive at a similar outcome. And South Korea was ran by violent dictarors until its recent democratic history. I don't think the same will happen to China, but I wouldn't dismiss the ability of its citizens to innovate based only on the autocratic nature of their government. It's not like if the Chinese people are deprived of imagination. They have it, and they have the ability to act on it, and they do.

The autocratic environment might not be most amenable to free thinking and innovation, but then I'm not convinced that being free from autocracy is truly necessary for innovation to occur. Plenty of innovation occurred when Europe was ruled by Kings, or in 1900 Russia. Even within autocratic corporations, plenty of innovation occur.

Anyways, I don't wish for autocratic governments, but I'm not willing to dismiss China's ability to be innovative based on that.
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I know, I use it (and have recompiled it to patch out the mangling of incoming PGP messages).

I don't like that they don't have native IMAP.
better air quality, reduced risk of lung disease, longer, better lives?
No, no heating or hot water with electricity.
Just out of curiosity, do you use iOS or Android?
Pure propaganda with no evidence. Major exchanges like Kraken are still trading it even in USA.

Even if it were banned it would have little long-term impact. Literally impossible to stop decentralized swaps unless they also cripple BTC. it would be very powerful actually for people to realise how unstoppable it is.
Because HackerNews is not some haven of rationalism, especially if the not-west is involved. A well cited well reasoned opinion will be downvoted to oblivion and accused of astroturfing if it goes against majority opinion in those cases. I've seen far too many threads about some non HN saturated country where the only commenter that's actually from that country gets downvoted to oblivion for trying to bring in a modicum of nuance. Even when they're like GP and preface their comments with "I agree with the orthodox opinion but...".

Maybe GP doesn't want to get stalked by some paranoid HNer who thinks they're a Russian spy. Maybe they don't want to lose some karma dependent feature of HN on their main account. Maybe he was a lurker and this specific topic was what was important enough to finally make an account for.
This! Plastic bag bans have been a massive quality of life improvement in nearly every city I visit regularly.

I am not sure what the impact of plastic straw bans has been. Beyond just the symbolism, however, they would have been a useful step towards reconsidering the use of all single use plastic if COVID hadn’t picked up when it did.
I'm not convinced that this is borne out by history at all.

Anyway, the argument against the effectiveness of autocracy is essentially the same as the argument of planned production vs markets for price discovery.

The more you concentrate decision making on complex topics, the less the body making the decision has access to all the nuance and detail that are needed to make the correct decision. This usually gets even worse when the people bringing the (potentially upsetting) detail and nuance need also to maintain good relationships with the autocrat or face serious consequences.

You saw this relationship between Trump and Fauci recently - if you're trying to say something that the person in charge doesn't like, then you are sidelined to the detriment of society. That's classic autocratic behaviour. But in this case the consequences for Fauci were constrained by the fact that it was happening in a mainly free society, and the society was able to correct itself after 4 years without having to murder a huge proportion of its population. The ability to do that is a massive benefit for a free society.

There have been horrible famines killing many millions of people because the (smart, well-educated) person in charge thought they knew what was best. That is not efficient.

Needing to build consensus is something that generally has to happen in a free society can slow you down, but it also exposes you to other views, and allows your mistakes and prejudices to be challenged. This allows you to make better, more effective decisions.
It's worse than that: every reservoir of trust represents a resource that fraudsters can profit from destroying, like a rainforest. It's an opportunity to make money for themselves while gradually wearing down the rest of society and making it worse for everyone else. Just as the deliberate destruction of trust in politics leads to people storming the Capitol.
Sounds a lot like Minsky's vision of AI systems, btw.
The funny thing is that a lot of the measures are based on either bad science or not science at all. Still, the masses will tell you to fall in line and accept the meaaures because "science says so". If you ask them to explain the scientific method on the spot 99% won't be able to do so. No wonder why they're so easily fooled. The "experts" are the new priests and science is the new religion. And don't you dare question it.
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I'm unsure if your comment is actually serious or sarcastic. If Boeing came out and said "how many of those passengers would have died within a few years anyway" they would be in a much worse situation (PR wise) than today, where they have taken responsibility for the accidents that lead to people dying.

And yeah, the handling of coronavirus around the world is really sad also, but in no way obscures Boeings fucked up handling of the 737 Max and its (re)certifications.
>Remember, there was no tick-tock cycle before Intel invented the 2 year cadence back in ~2008.

There was no Tick Tock then, but there was Moore's law. Intel unable to improve their node and manufacturing has nothing to do with Tick Tock cycles.

>There is no guarantee that TSMC might get stuck at a node in future for Intel to catch up.

They did. 3nm is no longer using GAAFET. And they have a plan B with 3nm using FinFET.

We judge a company by its past, and present experience. TSMC has always been an open, transparent and conservative company. Much like ARM, they are not there to take the spotlight. They were suppose to be in the background helping companies, it was only in recent 5 years Main Stream Media decided to hype it. Mostly because of Apple.
That sucks :-/ I hope Google can help you ASAP.
Wow, what a fantastic idea. There goes the weekend.
You can do that with ZFS as well but that still doesn't make snapshots a backup. The backup is when you send those snapshots to a remote volume. If a backup isn't stored remotely it isn't a backup (it also shouldn't be mounted locally).
Remember that Chinese companies and peoples also contributed heavily to "Western" Open Source, from Linux kernel to Apache Spark. It should be a borderless world in Open Source ecosystem.
So you want to be in a safe space where you never encounter unpopular opinions? It's even worse than I thought.
It's certainly worth interrogating how a physical asset with real depreciation and maintenance costs goes up in value over time.
> And malloc is also very slow.

Isn't one of the advantages of a GC environment that malloc is basically free? Afaik the implementation of malloc_in_gc comes down to

result_address = first_free_address;
first_free_address += requested_bytes;
return result_address;

It's the actual garbage collection that might be expensive, but since that process deals with the fragmentation, there is no need to keep a data structure with available blocks of memory around.

That's also the reason why, depending on the patterns of memory usage, a GC can be faster than malloc+free.
Very interesting. As an application dev I'm curious to know what it would take to have a, let's say, Actix-web stack bundled with a unikernel, or a MeiliSearch engine bundled with a unikernel.

Both of these now live in Docker containers along with a whole Alpine system. I'm correct to believe that unikernels could change this, right?
I care to disagree, millions of people working from home and huge digital economy is there.

There is already a lot of real value in ubiquitous computing, automated warehouses, supply chain optimizations, digital entertainment, digital government services in many countries, I could go on for couple of pages now.

Recommendations and tracking are just a side effect. FB and Google ads are not whole "digital economy" on their own.
Then take quarks. They are a fundamental particle with no known substructure. They are a single unit and they are countable.
I think what you say is correct, its so much easier to fire a missile than it is to stop one. Honestly, reliability and cost are bigger drivers than raw performance. The scenario is a bit bad I can admit, and did admit.

But if we were in desperate times, I think the limits would matter and fab tech would be an important strategic asset for what it enables. The nature of it is that its easier to attack, but we hopefully have something to defend.

Intrinsically larger process nodes are better for analog and have uses even as new fabs come along. In 7nm your analog signals are not treated very nicely, but these are important for sensors. Also power electronics are not really on the newest nodes either. The microchips are old because they get the job done and I don’t think we feel so threatened to push the limits.
The most you can lose is $10? No matter how many shares you own? Or is that per share?
One hilarious thing about Tether is that it implicitly acknowledges that the dollar is the source of stability for unstable crypto, and that crypto needs to be "dollarised" to deal with its volatility.
Remember when WhatsApp were all "Yes, we're being bought by Facebook, but we're going to preserve your privacy"? https://blog.whatsapp.com/setting-the-record-straight

At some point, words become meaningless platitudes that are simply invalidated by the next big ToS update. Facebook have a major incentive in being able to read our messages, so I fully expect them to march in the direction of figuring out how to sell the the walkback of e2e in the future. It'll be dressed up as for our "safety" or so that their "partners" can add some sort of "value", but it will come.
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Can't think of any vertical FOSS. Can you?
Yes. SPACS are not stocks, not sure what the other replier is talking about (they're SPVs).

If a SPAC doesn't find a company to merge with you get your money back and some interest. If a SPAC finds a company, you have the choice to (1) stay invested in the SPAC and therefore the company or (2) refuse the merger and get your money back with interest.

Interestingly when you invest in a SPAC you actually get two things (1) the option to invest in the company they find, and (2) a warrant to buy even more stock. What's even more interesting is that you could actually sell this warrant while keeping the option to invest in the company the SPAC finds.
At $11.77 per hour, if you have to hire one person to handle all of that for every two vehicles, it's still a huge savings. It would take a very false-alarm-heavy system to require that level of attention.
I meant the "collect" part.
How do you deal with mental switching between projects/clients/areas?
Have you experienced the struggle of trying to switch your focus on another context (project/client/life area) in the middle of the day and just can't because your mind still thinks about your initial context?

For me, it takes sometimes 5 minutes and sometimes 4 hours or more to be able to focus 100% on the new context.

How do you deal with this Context Switch - Shift of focus?
Do you recommend any tools?

(I am currently trying to build a tool to reduce the switch penalty as I haven't found a solution)
The running joke at Waymo for a long time was "How many engineers does it take to operate a self driving car?"
Your first point is against their terms of use. So, that's preventing them to do something like that. But sure, if you think that Facebook will break the law here, switch.

For your second point, how would Google ever get my device backup? I guess if you are using Android and worried about your privacy, what you should switch is not your messenger app, but your OS.
Just make mosquitoes disappear. The rest of the insects can be managed, but mosquitoes are the worst of them.
Racket developers have not heard of Donald Knuth
Donald Knuth once said, “Premature Optimisation is the root of all evil!”
But that message has obviously not yet reached the Racket community.

Because how else do you explain this madness: they spent three years developing a new version of Racket that et the end turned slower than the original! [1]

Meanwhile, for example, we can still count the number of web applications written in Racket on the fingers of one hand, and the number of Racket users in the racket group is rapidly decreasing from day to day.

Turns out the only users of Racket are people who live off Racket in a way that writes scientific articles that nobody cares about.

Very rare are those who use Racket for any practical purposes.

I wonder if it would have been better if this huge effort had been made to write clear documentation on how to use the Racket Web Library in a practical way? The current documentation for the web framework doesn't understand, I mean, even its creator, Jay McCarthy. I've never seen worse documentation on any software product than this for racket web library in my entire life.

On the other hand, we have this guy, Jess Alama [2], who, like, wrote something about it. But there's literally not a single thing this guy published that he didn't charge her fattly. All his books and tutorials cost a lot and their quality is questionable.

But, unfortunately, these topics are a taboo in Racket community...

[1] https://blog.racket-lang.org/2021/01/racket-status.html
[2] https://gumroad.com/jessealama
Personally I thoroughly enjoyed both of Walter Isaacson's biographies on Jobs and Benjamin Franklin. I got a lot from both. What specifically makes the other biographies better? More details, wider points of view etc?
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> strong collective identity

This makes a society weaker - it's effectively a monoculture that restricts the data available to the decision makers.

It also reduces a societies ability to innovate in art, culture and eventually technology and science - innovation requires the ability to take an outside view, to be self-critical, and a society that is too busy forging a 'strong collective identity' will make it harder for individuals to do that.

It even poisons a societies own understanding of itself and its history, since we have so far failed to come up with good ways of building a 'strong collective identity' without accepting and promoting lies about history.
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